(S38) PT 2 - Behavior Control

[Billybolo53]

For norfolk this season, I feel that struggling last season helps with the losses this year. We went through the growing pains last season and now have a well rounded and experienced squad. For my player, I never look to deep into the wins and losses. Just make sure that I am pulling my weight. This game is such a luck driven one that if you start to take it too personally it sucks some of the fun out of it. I really like how our Gms do a good job of keeping everyone involved but not making them feel guilty if they miss something. Every single thing done is appreciated from just an activity check or someone who buys the best equipment. I think that goes a long way in keeping the team engaged and takes the sting out of the losses. You have to control what you can control and just have fun with it.

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[CptGoosar]

Well that’s a great question and one that does have a rathe simple yet neat solution. The players on the Arizona Outlaws are all professional and should therefore need no method for controlling or disauding the number of penalties that are committed by the end of the season. However they still have a novel and interesting method in place 

The solution that the Arizona Outlaws use is a raffle. This raffle hold a host of different punishments thts are drawn out either at the end of the game / half / training session or season. Every time a penalty is commitee the player who’s fault it was is name is place in the raffle as many times as the number of panalty yards. 

You may saw this isn’t fair as CB / OL are the most receptive of penalties well this is also taken care as for each offences that a player is on the feild they are also placed into the ballot.

[RocketMan13]

In San Jose the attitude is very simple: you are all professionals and adults. Running laps is a punishment for children, not adults. Discipline is handled the way most other aspects of professional life is handled: financially. The front office has written fines into virtually all of the SaberCats contracts to include provisions for monetary fines related to on-field and off-field disciplinary issues. This doesn't mean that the team is fining players for making honest mistakes. The on-field fines are as follows: $5K fine for Unsportsmanlike Conduct penalties, with an additional $10K penalty if a second Unsportsmanlike penalty results in an ejection. Off-field fines have a wider range, from $1500 for fights and scuffles on the practice field and $500 for tardiness to team meetings, to a maximum penalty of $50K for Conduct Detrimental to the League. While the league commissioner is responsible for assessing and ultimately determining punishment from the league for these kind of incidents, the team also had the ability to punish such behavior. This approach has proved less than fruitful, as San Jose remains one of the most penalized teams in the league.

[JBLAZE_THE_BOSS]

In Kansas City, our coaches really preach how important it is that we take care of the football. There’s no way that you can be a high-caliber, winning team, if you’re consistently losing the turnover battle. The thing that keeps us in check the most I think is how much we focus on this during film review. To the left of our projector painted on the wall in big, bold font it says “PROTECT THE FOOTBALL”, so it’s always in our minds. Another strategy we use is simple self-policing. We have some veterans on this team that aren’t afraid to take some of the younger guys aside and talk to them about some of the basics of professional football. Whether its how to keep your emotions in check during an emotionally charged time on the field, or reminding someone where to line up on a play, communication within the players is really important. We’ve had some success so far this season, and it’s because we’re a disciplined football team and everyone knows what their assignment is and executes it.

[Punk42AE]

It's all about being business when we have to.  You can have fun and games when it doesn't matter, but you can't have those during an active game when it will get you a penalty.  We try to strive for the goal of zero penalties, but we all know that that will not happen.  So if we can keep it around only 5 penalties we are golden, but even that can come down to a lot of different factors, from how the other team is acting, to the way officials are calling the games we are playing.  But the key when a penalty happens is not to let it get into our heads, and not to get bent out of shape over it, as that will only make the whole situation cascade and bring penalty on top of penalty.  The key's for any time a penalty happens is for the coaches, and then our teammates to use the phrase from Billy Chapel, "Clear the mechanism", and then keep on playing like we know we should.    

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[moonlight]

The Hahalua are currently the worst team in football. They are horrific on both sides of the football. It's a shame that Big Slammu's last season in the league is going like this, but he has been voted team captain by his team for his last rodeo so that entails displaying some leadership as this team struggles. Big Slammu is used to winning. He is a 5 time Ultimus Champion who understands what winning feels like. His message to the team on Friday was to keep doing everything right. Showing up to the practice facily on time. Showing up to team meeting on time. Making sure they are sticking to their workout routine. Being on a bad team isn't a reason to get lazy. In fact, it is a time to really make sure you stand out from the rest of the team to ensure your future in this league whether it be on this team or not.

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[Sebster]

Our team likes to hand out an award after every game to the "best behaved" player. So someone who did not have any penalties, did not get into any fights, or did not talk back to the refs even if it was deserved. This award is known as the Willie Warrior award, named after long time legend Willie Miller. The award itself is a nice little trophy that your name gets engraved onto and then it passes on to the next person who wins the following week. Whoever wins the Willie Warrior the most times in a season gets to keep the trophy at the end of the season and take it home with them! Not only is there a trophy, but whoever wins gets to eat at our sponsored restaurant for free for the entire week. That's right, you guessed it, that means free skyline coneys for the Willie Warrior of the week!

wc: 154

[micool132]

The strategy for emotion control in COlorado is pretty simple, never too low, always as high as possible. The locker room is extremly positive locker. When someone is having a bad streak, everyone cheers them up. When someone has a good play, we hype it up even more. Negativism doesnt exist, if you are negative, you will get smothered in positive vibes. Now, does this bring good results on the field? many say yes (all of us really!). When the other team is rude to us, we only use this to motivate ourselves and bring it back in their faces.  Theres also Stoinks the cat cheering everyone up in our darkest moments, like after a loss streak. Stoinks is a powerful cat, everyone rallied behind it's leadership and classy name, even the doubters.  In the end, the Yeetis are always trying their best to keep the morale up thru any means, and hates will say being too hyped is just as bad as being too down but what to they really know!

[Tesla]

Honestly the Colorado Yeti do their best to stay disciplined by having GM Tesla remind everyone that despite being a multi-million dollar sports enterprise that this is all still just a game. Getting too emotionally invested into something that you cannot completely control is a quick way to throw yourself off. The Pinnacle Of Perfection as recognized by The Prince Of Tennis is achieved by throwing yourself into the game to have fun rather than by being preoccupied by winning or losing, and that is the mentality that is most heavily preached by leadership. Surrounding the players with positive energy and positive emotions regardless of whether they win, lose, or draw does decently in this regard.

Now as for how they prevent holes in the walls the key is actually that the Colorado Yeti stadium is made out of far stronger materials than most including such materials as beskar and vibranium. You might think this would only help in home games, but thanks to teleportation technology the team is able to use their home locker room regardless of whether they are on the road or not.

Honestly on a meta note I want to say getting too caught up in wins and losses feels like a quick way to hurt yourself given the nature of the sim that we use. Enjoy the experience of the league that you can control and hope for the best outside of it. Truth be told I would say the same applies to sports in general as people are all too willing to leave their mood in the hands of a team that they have zero control over, and I think a big thing is to be able to enjoy the little victories without letting the losses impact you too much.

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[xenosthelegend]

How do the Philadelphia Liberty control their behavior after a loss? Well, we do not really have to do much to control our anger, as there is no longer any anger. After years and years of losing and heartbreak, one begins to go numb to feelings of anger. Any outbursts potentially caused by this have not happened in the Philadelphia locker room in years. When you have a losing mentality, it is truly amazing what it can do to a locker room. At this point, all we do is look at what happened, and laugh. We blew a 24-0 lead with 1 quarter left? We feel nothing, and laugh about it. We get blown out? We feel nothing, and laugh about it. We lose after the defense completely collapses with 15 seconds left in the fourth quarter allowing a 74+ yard TD to lose the game? We feel nothing, and laugh about it.